City of the Daleks was a full-colour, painted comic story that detailed Jeff Stone's reconnaissance mission to Skaro. Though short on plot, it afforded an incredibly rich view of Dalek society, culture and technology. Written when The Daleks was the only televised story of which the public were aware, it offered the first in-depth exploration of the Dalek capital city.

Despite the fact that almost every panel contained new information about the Daleks, few of those innovations were carried forward in the Dalek mythos. This does, however, feature the debut of the Dalek lie detector, which would eventually plague Romana II in Destiny of the Daleks.

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Jeff Stone covertly lands on Skaro near an extinct volcano. He pops down inside and finds access to the lower levels of a Dalek city. He explores the city fully, and is detected only by a single Dalek. Nevertheless, he is able to rush out of the city and return to Earth to report his findings to his colleagues.

This story is extremely short on plot. It literally is as simple as "Jeff Stone walks around the Dalek city". But it's very, very long on details about Dalek society, culture and technology. Here are some of the highlights:

The city is awash with lifts that work via pressurised gas — very similar to the kind of technology employed by the Silurian tribe in The Hungry Earth

Daleks require great amounts of vegetative matter. When mature, the plants are pulverised and turned into a gas form that Daleks then absorb through an intake valve. In essence, the story claims that Daleks are vegetarians.

The city has a "radio telescope visualiser room" which takes radio waves and converts them to light waves so that the Daleks can see anything that's happening around them, even millions of miles away.

There is a part of the city called the "war office". It records the positions of every Dalek and ensures their actions are co-ordinated for maximum efficiency. The office is led by a red Dalek known as the War Leader Dalek.

Another area of the city offers Daleks target practice against humanoid shapes. Daleks in this area were led by a red Dalek called a Storm-Blast Dalek, described as a kind of sergeant-major.

Stone also encounters a laboratory of sorts — a place called the Dalek Invention Hall, where the Daleks created new weapons. At the time of his visit, the Daleks are perfecting a weapon that will prevent the Sun's rays from hitting the Earth.

A portion of the city is a dedicated museum space, showing off things related to their various conquests. Stone is naturally drawn to that portion having to do with the Solar System. There, he finds a Venusian spaceship from before the time of the Dalek invasion, a methane gas ship from Jupiter, a Mercuriansun-hopper, and the remains of a Dalek craft that landed on the Moon in 1971 and captured some humans. The last item is particularly interesting as the story was written in 1964.

Stone eventually makes it to the Emperor Dalek's quarters. There, he discovers the Emperor taking his regular constitutional of a burst of revitalising rays.

Stone finds a booklet in this part of the city called Anatomy of the Dalek. It's pretty much what it purports to be. Readers of The Dalek World were, on the next page of the story, given a fold-out diagram of Dalek anatomy.

Taking one of the lifts deep into the bowels of the city, Stone discovers a workshop where Daleks are working on a plan to house Daleks in fake asteroids so as to orbit the Solar System undetected. He also found finds Daleks using a machine to extract the truth from a Dalek — the truth that he has seen Jeff Stone lurking around the Dalek city.